Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-08-24
Minor HapDenings.

Emanuel LWalley ana Harry Fisher,
aged IA years, were drowned in Cones
toga Creek, at Levan's mill, Lancaster,
Pa, on the 21st. Fisher was drowning
and Zwalley attempted to save him and
both were carried down.
The firm of n. Matson & Co., of Chi
cago, one of the largest jewelry houses
in the city, made an assignment on the
18th. The debts of the concern are es-
timated at $4,000.
During the past year the Grand Army
of the Republic spent for the relief of
veterans and their families $253, 1856.
A sensation has been created at New
Albany, Ind, by the announcement that
the will of Millionaire Depauw, who left
large amounts to charity, is to be con-
tested by a daughter by his first wife.
She only got $1,000 while the other
children received something like mill
lion each.
On the 18th Theodore Grapp, Is years
old, employed by J. G. Winship & Co..
Chicago, fell down the elevator shaft in
the company's building from the fourth
floor to the basement and was fatally in
jured.
John Mccullough, Henry Parish and
Louis Wolf, painters, were precipitated
from scafold at Louisville, KY, on the
18th, by the breaking of the stirrup iron
and fell forty feet. Mccullough was
fatally injured and the others received
serious fractures.
Crimes.
When Thomas Rogers attempted to
rob the money drawer Of the post-office
at Indiana, Pa, he rang the alarm bell at
tached thereto. Postmaster Kelly ap-
peared on the scene with a revolver and
shot the bell-ringer dead.
Mrs. Melvina r. w. Payne, widow
and her daughter, a New York school
teacher, committed suicide at their
rooms, on Charles Street, in that city on
the 10Th by taking laudanum and with
razor severing the arteries of the wrist
and elbow. Five days later, nothing
having been seen of the two women,
their rooms were broken into by the au-
thorities for the purpose of discovering
of the cause, sickening stencil, sup
posed to arise from decaying garbage,
and the bodies were found. Letters
found in the room gave fear of insan-
ity as the cause of suicide, although
there is no evidence of the existence of
of any ground for such fear
Jake Pettijohn, who was sentenced
County, Ga, and escaped by flight. has
just been arrested in Indian Territory,
and will be brought back for execution.
In Lancaster County, S. c., an Swear
old colored boy shot and killed one sis
ter and blew another's arm off, in an
angry mood.
I. D. G. Prentiss has been arrested at
Ocala, Fla, for forging a mortgage on
real estate valued at 100000. He is "A
years old and his 74-year-old wife is the
complainant.
Brakeman Joseph Cushing died at
West Troy, n. Y, from the effects of
stoning by miscellaneous boys.
The Arizona train robbers secured
200 by their recent attack on a Cen
trail Pacific train, and have escaped.
James Reynolds was lynched at Leon,
Ia, n an assault upon a Mrs. Noble.
The body of Luke Mcnamara, baker
was found on the railroad near Atlanta,
Ga, horribly mutilated. Mcnamara
had been in the city drinking, and start
ed to walk home. The impression gain
ed ground that the man had been Killed
aud robbed and placed on the railroad
track and two negroes found in the 10.
cality were arrested, and blood was found
on the clothing of one. They deny their
guilt